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An archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Broader terms: Macaronesia
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The largest island in the Madeira Archipelago; in full, Madeira Island.
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The largest tributary of the Amazon, running 900 miles from Pando Department, Bolivia through the states of Rondônia and Amazonas, Brazil to its mouth east of Manaus; in full, Madeira River.
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A city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cincinnati named after landowner John Madeira.
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A surname from Portuguese.
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of Madeira (“fortified wine”).
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Usage: alt-of, countable, uncountable
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noun
A type of fortified wine produced on that island.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
an amber dessert wine from the Madeira Islands
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Broader terms: fortified wine
Narrower terms: malmsey
noun
an island in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa; the largest of the Madeira Islands
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Broader terms: island
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a Brazilian river; tributary of the Amazon River
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Madeira River
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Broader terms: river
History
From Portuguese Madeira, from Portuguese madeira (“wood”), from Latin materia, from Proto-Indo-European *méh2tēr (“mother”). Doublet of matter.
Across languages
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